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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
It is just such a low, sad bar. He burned off draft picks to try to maintain the level achieved in his first year. In that year, my recollection was that Wideman and Russell (two Feaster players) were the dmen who really stepped up the most after Gio went down. Hiller was an important contributor, but it is worth noting that Ramo had a higher winning percentage in the regular season and played 34 games. If we win three games in the playoffs this year our total since the 2015 playoffs will surpass the total playoff wins from that first year, a mere 6 years later. I suppose someone could have said they were 3-4 years away from being a playoff team but Feaster signings like Hudler and Wideman, Feaster trades like Russell and Jones and Feaster picks like Johnny and Monahan dragged that team into the playoffs less than 12 months after Brad became GM. I would say their contributions were more important than those of Raymond, Englland, Hiller and Bollig.
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When Gio went down it was Brodie and Engelland who stepped up, and Wideman continued his (one) year of good play. I can’t believe you included Jones there - the guy Feaster got (with Shane O’Brien) for Sarich and Tanguay.
BTW, Monahan was the no-brainer consensus pick after Barkov and Lindholm were gone and Johnny was not a “Feaster pick”, because Feaster was notoriously not involved past the first couple rounds. What Feaster did do was trade the 14th pick in 2012 so he could move down and get Mark Jankowski. This team looks a little different with Tom Wilson, Teuvo Teravainen or Tomas Hertl (or Vasilevsky but who knows with goalies). Hell it looks better with Cody Ceci or even Zemgus.